A 19-month-old boy was critically injured by a grenade in a police raid of a suspected drug dealer's home near Atlanta. According to the child's parents, he is in a medically-induced coma and has a 50 percent chance of surviving.

A poor but honest California man did the honorable thing when he found a bag filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars because he wanted to make his family proud of him.

For the first time in 50 years, the dictionary ran out and two winners were crowned as Scripps National Spelling Bee champions. Sriram Hathwar, 14, correctly spelled "stichomythia" to win and Ansun Sujoe, 13, recited "feuilleton" to tie. In other news, this boy will never forget how to spell "kabaragoya."

Just a man and his goat, enjoying a nice sunset bike ride together.

If you've ever thought Southwest's $59 flight promotions were too good to be true, it's because they probably were.

Jacob Williamson, 15, of Cape Coral, Florida was eliminated from the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday evening after misspelling "kabaragoya." But not before prematurely celebrating what he assumed would be his correct spelling of the word.

The AP says the sheriff's deputies who evaluated UCSB killer Elliott Rodger during an April wellness check were well aware of his threatening YouTube videos but never bothered to actually watch them.

Bryan Cranston got to talking about the final episode of Breaking Bad today, and he has some good news: the story of Walter White is only done when he says it's done.

According to the Los Angeles Times, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is buying the Clippers from noted racist Donald Sterling for a mere $2 billion.

A Virginia tenth grader says he attacked and killed his parents because they were acting too parental, "taking away [his] iPod and stuff."

Next to all the vast political, historical, and human tragedies that were playing out in China 25 years ago, it's a tiny thing to regret, but: This Bloomberg story about the rescue of dissidents after the Tian'anmen Square massacre would be an ideal Hong Kong movie scenario, if only Hong Kong were able to make such a movie.*

Young Jathan Muhar is graduating preschool in a tough job market, but he's got his priorities in order and knows exactly who he wants to be when he grows up. We could all stand to learn a thing or two from him.

Nine-year-old Audrey Bruben, of South River, N.J., gets a look from Genny, a 4,000 pound hippopotamus, as Adventure Aquarium opens a hippopotamus exhibit on Thursday in Camden, N.J. Image via Mel Evans/AP.

Brooklyn (and Gawker) was blessed with a visit from the Weed Fairy last year and she has since taken her virtuous work to Seattle. She's also ready for the world to know who she is: 23-year-old Yeni Sleidi.

At the same time as 20,000 students gathered for a vigil honoring the victims of last week's mass shooting, cops seized 7 guns and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition from a 21-year-old Santa Barbara student who nearly shot a neighbor through the wall of his apartment.

Remember Paul Ryan, that guy who lifts weights in a backward hat? Well, some people must not, because Ryan keeps getting confused for Anthony Weiner, a different man who lifts weights without a shirt on and sometimes takes selfies.

Well, let's just get on with it. Tyrone Bowd is a 24-year-old Australian man with scrotal lymphoedema, a condition that has inflated his sack to the size of a watermelon. He also, according to his mother, has an inverted penis.

It looks like a really really big sinkhole. But maybe the rules are different in Central Florida:

"When I met Taylor and when we got married, he looked like a Backstreet Boy," said Kim, 28, a marketing director at a local airport near Fredericksburg, VA. She meant that as a compliment. You see, her relationship has since been hijacked by her husband Taylor's barbecue-sauce trap of a beard that he grew, "fell in love with," and then launched a Facebook campaign to keep after she told him to get rid of it. He kept it and named it Beardimus Maximus.

Authorities in Philadelphia have charged 41 people for their involvement in an impressive, elaborate auto insurance fraud scheme that extends to city officials, police officers, and insurance company employees.